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Home Assistant, the increasingly popular smart home platform that many enthusiasts now prefer over Google Home, has a new piece of hardware that promises to end your smart home chaos once and for all. Called the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2, this $49 device is a USB adapter designed to unify Zigbee, Thread, and Matter devices under one roof, no separate hubs ro apps required.

ReMarkable is getting a head start on the holiday season with an early Black Friday campaign. The rare, price-cutting deals begin on November 20, 2025, and run through Cyber Monday, offering meaningful discounts across the company’s lineup and giving shoppers ample time to secure a digital notebook before the holiday rush.

This year’s promotion includes two separate deals. The first is a $70 discount on all reMarkable 2 bundles, the brand’s crowd-pleasing classic. The reMarkable 2 stays popular because it’s slim, simple, and nails the paper-and-pen-like experience better than many e-ink competitors. The second deal is a $50 discount on all reMarkable Paper Pro bundles, giving the larger, more powerful model a friendlier price tag. In both cases, the discounts apply whether you’re buying new or refurbished.

Google is giving its weather tools a major upgrade. The company has announced WeatherNext 2, its most advanced AI-powered weather forecasting model yet. According to Google, WeatherNext 2 will make weather information in the Pixel Weather app, Google Search, Gemini, and Google Maps more accurate and more useful.

Google has just scored an important win for the Android camp in its competition with Apple. According to a study based on crowdsourced data collected by Ookla, the Pixel 10 Pro beat the iPhone 17 family by delivering the fastest global median Wi-Fi download speeds.

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The vast majority of Android games use touchscreen controls, which makes sense since most Android devices are smartphones or tablets. However, there’s a growing number of Android games you can play with a controller — a list that will only expand as the operating system reaches new form factors. Furthermore, the rising popularity of cloud gaming allows Android users to play many non-touchscreen titles that aren’t natively available on the platform. To better bridge the gap between these input methods, Google is working on new features in Android 17 that will give gamers more control over button presses.

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I can’t say I’m remotely surprised to see reports that the Apple iPhone Air and Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge are struggling for sales. Nor that their successors might never even see the light of day. While the idea of a super lightweight, perfectly pocketable powerhouse sounds good on paper, they’re just not the kind of devices most people want to buy. They’re prohibitively expensive to start with, though that hasn’t stopped booklet-style foldables from finding a sustainable niche. No, the real problem — the one we all saw coming — is their dreadful battery life. And yet, better battery life consistently tops consumer wishlist

On the other hand, we now have our first smartphones that are pushing in the opposite direction. The new OnePlus 15 and OPPO Find X9 Pro are part of a new wave of handsets featuring silicon-carbon infused batteries, offering enough capacity to last two days of solid use and perhaps even longer for some. And I bet you can guess which of those two categories has my attention.

Streaming media was supposed to be the next great evolution in home entertainment, and while in many ways it is, we’ve also seen it introduce nearly as many problems as it’s solved. One of the biggest has simply been keeping track of what’s available where — while some content is locked down tightly to one streaming platform, there’s also a ton of it that’s available across multiple services, or floats back and forth between a few. Now Google is providing a helpful new tool for quickly tracking down where we can watch something.

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Google is now rolling out call recording more widely in its Phone by Google app for Pixel phones. The company promised to bring the feature to Pixel 6 and newer devices back in September, and it appears that rollout is now well underway.

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Updated: November 12, 2025 (11 PM ET): After the release of the November Android Canary build, we can now confirm that toggling off the new “Show on home screen” option in Pixel’s At a Glance settings indeed hides the widget completely from the home screen while keeping it visible on the lock screen and Always-on Display. The screen recording above demonstrates how the feature would work, should it eventually be released in a stable build.

Original article: November 12, 2025 (4:30 AM ET):  Google could finally give Pixel users long-awaited control over the At a Glance widget. In the latest Android Canary build with Android System Intelligence version B.17.playstore.pixel10.825046611, we spotted a new “Show on home screen” toggle in the At a Glance settings, suggesting that you might soon be able to turn off the widget on your home screen while keeping it active on the lock screen.